An empirical investigation of the true and fair override in the United Kingdom

Journal of Business Finance and Accounting

Volumn 36, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 1-30

  Livne, Gilad ^a   McNichols, Maureen ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Earnings quality; Informativeness of financial statements; Principles vs. rules based accounting; True and fair override

Indexed keywords

EID: 60849095129     PISSN: 0306686X     EISSN: 14685957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5957.2008.02112.x     Document Type: Article

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